I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, January 15th.

Let's not talk about Donald Trump, at least not much and at least not first. The new administration is on

its way in, and last night, President-elect Biden gave a major COVID policy speech with

his first concrete proposals, and you couldn't miss the big 180 change in tone.

We will never, ever give up.

And we will come back.

We'll come back together.

We didn't get into all this overnight.

We won't get out of it overnight.

And we can't do it as a separated and divided nation.

The only way we can do it is to come together, to come together with as fellow Americans,

as neighbors, as the United States of America. And that's just the tone. Accknowledging the problem

is bad, not saying it will just go away and people should live like nothing's wrong. Here's one

of the specifics with the new tone

baked in. More than one in five black and Latino households in America report they don't have

enough food to eat. This includes 30 million adults and as many as 12 million children.

It's wrong. It's children. It's wrong.

It's tragic.

It's unnecessary.

It's unacceptable.

So we're going to extend emergency nutritional assistance for 43 million children in their families

enrolled in the SNAP program through the rest of this year.

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